Milta Ortiz is an award-winning playwright, poet, performer, and writer. She was born in El Salvador and raised in the Bay Area. She now calls Tucson home. She is developing Anita, a musical in collaboration with composer Quetzal Guerrero at Borderlands Theater, and in collaboration with the University of Arizona Theatre Department and Childsplay. An excerpt of Anita was showcased at 4xLatine by the Latine Musical Theatre Lab at Teatro Latea, NYC. She incubated Anita at ASU HIDA where she was a 2020-21 Projecting All Voices Mellon fellow. She is developing her solo play, What Are You? and directing Ballet & Bagels, a TYA play she wrote with her students at Pima Community College. Her play, Pilar and Paloma was part of Launchpad’s 2021 Bipoc Reading Series Festival. Judge Torres, commissioned and produced by Milagro Theatre Group, toured nationally to universities (2019-2020). Milta is Associate Artistic Director at Borderlands Theater, where a few of her plays, including Sanctuary (2018) and Más (2015) have world premiered. Borderlands’ production of Más toured Arizona universities. Más was produced at Su Teatro, Ubuntu Theatre Project/Laney College, and San Diego State University. She teaches theatre at Pima Community College. She earned an MFA from Northwestern University, and a BA from San Francisco State University. She is proud to serve on the National New Play Network board of directors and as commissioner for the Tucson Convention Center.